--- title: Big is not always cheaper: a 100 g pack for £1 is 1p a gram, while a… — Unit prices and sales that are not really sales · tree and pragmatics description: Big is not always cheaper: a 100 g pack for £1 is 1p a gram, while a 300 g "giant" pack for £3.30 is 1.1p a gram, so the giant one is dearer per gram; shelf labels often show the unit price in small print. Who acts: Big, g pack, giant one, shelf labels. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Big, g pack, giant one, shelf labels), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:money:013-unit-prices-and-sales-that-are-not-really-sales.lesson:1 # text = Big is not always cheaper: a 100 g pack for £1 is 1p a gram, while a 300 g "giant" pack for £3.30 is 1.1p a gram, so the giant one is dearer per gram; shelf labels often show the unit price in small print. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = money # lesson = 013-unit-prices-and-sales-that-are-not-really-sales.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:amod 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 4 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 5 advmod _ _ 5 cheaper cheap ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 8 100 100 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 g g NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 pack pack NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 11 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 £ £ SYM $ _ 10 nmod _ _ 13 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 15 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 p p NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 gram gram NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 20 while while SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 22 300 300 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 23 g g NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 24 " " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ _ 25 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 26 " " PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 27 pack pack NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 28 for for ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 £ £ SYM $ _ 27 nmod _ _ 30 3.30 3.30 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Frac 29 nummod _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 32 1.1p 1.1p NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 27 nmod _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 gram gram NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 36 so so ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 40 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 cop _ _ 41 dearer dear ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 18 parataxis _ _ 42 per per ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 gram gram NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ _ 44 ; ; PUNCT : _ 48 punct _ _ 45 shelf shelf NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 compound _ _ 46 labels label NOUN NNS Number=Plur 48 nsubj _ _ 47 often often ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 48 show show VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 advcl _ _ 49 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 50 unit unit NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 compound _ _ 51 price price NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obj _ _ 52 in in ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 53 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 54 amod _ _ 54 print print NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=51:nmod 55 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is** | present | Big | | | | | always, cheap *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | a g pack | a p gram and a g giant pack | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | present | | 1.1p | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | present | the giant one | | | | | per gram; dear *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **show** | present | shelf labels | the unit price | | | | in small print; often *property* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent price=Patient in print=Topic | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:money:013-unit-prices-and-sales-that-are-not-really-sales.lesson:1`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. 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